Dict: easton - Fat

easton:

Fat @ (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice kjv@Genesis:4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production kjv@Genesis:45:18; kjv@Numbers:18:12; kjv@Psalms:81:16 kjv@Psalms:147:47). The fat of sacrifices was to be burned kjv@Leviticus:3:9-11 kjv@Leviticus:4:8 kjv@Leviticus:7:3 ; kjv@8:25; Numbers:18:17. Comp. kjv@Exodus:29:13-22; kjv@Leviticus:3:3-5). It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind kjv@Psalms:17:10). In kjv@Joel:2:24 the word is equivalent to "vat," a vessel. The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat" and "press-fat" kjv@Haggai:2:16; kjv@Isaiah:63:2).

Father @ a name applied

(1) to any ancestor kjv@Deuteronomy:1:11; kjvKings:15:11; kjv@Matthew:3:9 kjv@Matthew:23:30, etc.); and

(2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. kjv@Judges:17:10 kjv@Judges:18:19; kjv@1Samuel:10:12; kjv@2Kings:2:12; kjv@Matthew:23:9, etc.).

(3) The author or beginner of anything is also so called; e.g., Jabal and Jubal kjv@Genesis:4:20-21; comp. kjv@Job:38:28). Applied to God kjv@Exodus:4:22; kjv@Deuteronomy:32:6; kjv@2Samuel:7:14; kjv@Psalms:89:27-28, etc.).

(1.) As denoting his covenant relation to the Jews kjv@Jeremiah:31:9; kjv@Isaiah:63:16 kjv@Isaiah:64:8; kjv@John:8:41, etc.).

(2.) Believers are called God's "sons" kjv@John:1:12; kjv@Romans:8:16; kjv@Matthew:6:4 kjv@Matthew:6:8, 15, 18; 10:20,29). They also call him "Father" kjv@Romans:1:7; kjv@1Corinthians:1:3; kjv@2Corinthians:1:2; kjv@Galatians:1:4)

Fathom @ (Old A.S. faethm, "bosom," or the outstretched arms), a span of six feet kjv@Acts:27:28). Gr. orguia (from orego, "I stretch"), the distance between the extremities of both arms fully stretched out.

Fatling @

(1.) A fatted animal for slaughter ( kjv@2Samuel:6:13; kjv@Isaiah:11:6; kjv@Ezekiel:39:18. Comp. kjv@Matthew:22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed, fat).

(2.) kjv@Psalms:66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a species of sheep).

(3.) kjv@1Samuel:15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of less value).